It is 1976, and a newly qualified teacher is down on his luck in 'love' after recently having spent two years in a co-educational training college.
It is then, as a result of a repetitive dream, that he is coerced into investigating what proves to be a Time Capsule hidden in a wood. Trapped inside by his inquisitiveness he is then manipulated into programming it, and in such a way as to end up in mid-west North America ten years prior to their Civil War.
Once there he discovers the hard way what the 'West' was really like at that time, and whilst doing so becomes crossed in love with...